A panel of 22 experts in China has endorsed a Candu Energy nuclear reactor design that makes use of spent fuel from other reactors, paving the way for next generation plant development in a country some consider to be the world's most fertile market for an industry constantly buffeted by environmental...

Wind power has a dirty, little secret, a study released by the Canadian Nuclear Association says.
The highly touted renewable energy source is not as clean as it might look, given the point that gaps in production require use of a polluting fallback position, specifically gas-generated power, the...

Nuclear power plants throughout Canada must supply neighbors within a five to 10-mile radius potassium iodide pills and “emergency preparedness information,” the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission said Friday.
The CNSC also mandated nuclear plants stock supplies of radiation-blocking KI...

While much of the attention garnered by small modular reactors in the U.S. has focused on recent Department of Energy funding granted to NuScale Power and Babcock & Wilcox mPower, a startup in Canada is developing a fundamentally different type of SMR. Terrestrial Energy's small molten-salt reactor...

Over an entire year, a nuclear plant will expose people living nearby to an amount of radiation comparable to what they'd each receive eating a banana. Likewise, fatal accidents associated with natural gas generation occur ten times more frequently than those associated with power reactors, while...

Canada's nuclear regulator and a federal court are at odds over the sufficiency of an environmental review related to a stalled proposal to build two new reactors at the Darlington plant in Ontario. In May, a court judgment ruled in favor of Greenpeace and other environmental groups by sending the...

A Canadian standards organization recently finalized a new, comprehensive set of standards for civilian nuclear emergency management programs. The CSA Group developed the N1600 standard in response to a recommendation by the Fukushima Task Force of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to create a dedicated...

As it considers the proposed refurbishment of reactors at Darlington, Canada's nuclear regulator released a study Wednesday that forecast limited public health effects in the event of a severe accident at the facility. Specifically, the study (.pdf) modelled the potential radiation exposure from...

Ontario Power Generation will be allowed to extend the operating life of reactors at its Pickering Nuclear Plant following a decision by Canadian regulators announced Tuesday. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will allow the reactors to increase their maximum equivalent full power hours from 210...

The CEO of Bruce Power recently made the case in a Canadian newspaper that his company should take over reactors operated by publicly owned Ontario Power Generation Together, the two companies operate 18 of Canada's 19 power reactors. In a recent interview with the Toronto Sun editorial board, Duncan...

Monitoring following an incident at a Halifax, Canada, port suggests that containers of uranium hexafluoride dropped by a crane Thursday are not leaking. The bottom of a shipping container opened and four containers of UF6 fell to the ground. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission reported Friday that...

Canada's sole uranium conversion plant is offline pending an investigation by regulators into an unplanned shutdown last week. Cameco, which owns the Port Hope Conversion Facility, reported that the uranium hexafluoride plant was in operation during the installation of safety-related software Jan...

A study that looked at dose records for 45,000 Canadian nuclear plant workers concluded that those employed after 1964 did not have an increased risk of developing cancer compared to the public at large. The study published in the current edition of the British Journal of Cancer scrutinized employment...

A reactor at the Chalk River site in Canada returned to service Friday, ending a supply interruption of the medical isotope molybdenum-99. The Ontario lab's 135 MWt National Research Universal (NRU) reactor produces a number of isotopes used in medical testing and treatment. On Tuesday, AECL reported...

Canada plans to enter a civilian nuclear agreement with Kazakhstan, home to 12 percent of the world's uranium deposits and an ambitious fuel cycle industry. Azerbaijani newspaper AzerNews reported Monday that the agreement will be signed in Kazakhstan during a first-ever visit by Canada's foreign...

In a case that triggered extensive investigations by Canadian law enforcement, nuclear regulators and Ontario Power Generation, a judge has sentenced a 23-year-old man to more than a year in jail for fabricating a terrorist plot against the Pickering nuclear plant. In what investigators believe was an...

A truck driver whose semi caught on fire went to heroic lengths last summer to ensure the safety of the uranium hexafluoride he was hauling through Ohio. His story, verified by the Toronto Star , came to light during recent hearings on a proposed low- and intermediate-level waste repository in Kincardine...

The head of Ontario's provincial government has set aside plans to build two new reactors, saying the current demand for power does not justify the expense. The Toronto Star and other Canadian outlets reported that the government of Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the policy Thursday. Ontario's...

Canada and India finalized a nuclear cooperation agreement last week, opening Canada's sizeable uranium industry to one of the world's fastest-growing markets for nuclear power. Canada has not shared nuclear technology with the subcontinent since the mid-1970s, when India detonated a nuclear...

Produced by Ontario Power Generation, this video takes a look at the multi-layered safety systems at the Pickering nuclear plant east of Toronto. Its six operational Candu heavy water reactors were recently granted a five-year license extension by Canadian regulators. Their containment buildings each...

The six operational reactors at Canada's Pickering nuclear plant will be allowed to operate for another five years, Canadian regulators announced Friday. The decision by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will extend the plant's life into August of 2018. The extension will limit operation...

A unique safety feature of CANDU reactors, the vacuum building is designed to prevent the release of radioactive material to the environment in the unlikely event of an accident
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Unit 3 at the Bruce A Generating Station returned to service today after being taken off line...

Creates increased business opportunities for Canada's nuclear industry in South America
- By Linton Levy -
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) has signed an Agreement with Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A. (NASA) and Comisión Nacional de Energia Atómica (CNEA) to extend...

Earthquakes in northeast Canada rattled buildings in several cities Friday but had no effect on nearby nuclear facilities. A 5.2 magnitude quake was the largest of the tremors near Ottawa and struck at about 9:45 a.m. Its epicenter was about 50 miles from the Chalk River Laboratories, the birthplace...

Units 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 remain at full power. Last month Bruce Unit 4 was offline for maintenance
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Unit 3 at the Bruce A generating station was taken offline earlier today for what is expected to be a brief outage to allow workers to perform valve maintenance on one of the unit’s...